The Real Deal | Articles

Articles by James Gardner

TRD’s updates from ICSC: Live blog
May 21, 2013 08:05PM
Tear the American Folk Art Museum down!: Architecture review
May 16, 2013 03:00PM
Architecture review: Peter Poon’s Hilton Garden Inn a garish intrusion on Midtown
May 03, 2013 03:30PM
Architecture review: Raphael Vinoly’s 432 Park is the new king of the hill
May 01, 2013 04:00PM
Architecture review: Moed de Armas & Shannon scores another victory with the Cubes
April 22, 2013 10:30AM
Architecture review: St. Nicholas apartments a tasteful return to an earlier design era
April 19, 2013 03:00PM
Architecture review: ODA’s 241 Fifth Avenue is not exactly memorable
April 05, 2013 02:00PM
Architecture review: Stacking up ‘micro-units’
March 26, 2013 10:00AM
Architecture review: Tootsie Roll conversion brings welcome change to Soho
March 21, 2013 03:30PM
Architecture review: A look at Two Trees’ “daring” vision for Domino Sugar
March 08, 2013 02:00PM
Architecture review: The Stone curse
February 22, 2013 09:30AM
Architecture review: DDG’s 345Meatpacking is one of the better buildings in the neighborhood
February 19, 2013 10:00AM
Architecture Review: A Meatpacking District building is contrast to the slaughterhouse past
February 08, 2013 03:00PM
Architecture review: In Foster’s NYPL revision, sunlight to supplant stacks
January 25, 2013 11:00AM
Ada Louise Huxtable, an architecture critic for the golden age of International Style
January 10, 2013 03:00PM
Architecture review: An interior designer proves to be a force in exterior architecture
December 28, 2012 10:00AM
Architecture review: A sophisticate among strip malls in Queens
December 27, 2012 03:00PM
Architecture review: Gwathmey’s final project — as humble as the architect himself
December 13, 2012 01:30PM
The New School needs new design
November 30, 2012 10:30AM
Architecture review: A grid of glass and metal that manages to fit in
November 29, 2012 06:00PM
Architecture review: A downtown dormitory that lacks ambition
November 16, 2012 11:00AM
Architecture review: Contextualist addition mends lower Fifth Avenue
November 07, 2012 04:00PM
Architecture review: Why 6 Platt falls flat
October 24, 2012 04:00PM
Architecture review: Making the fashion district more, well, fashionable
October 18, 2012 05:30PM
Architecture review: The $40M project that is taking Times Square out of commission
October 04, 2012 02:30PM
Architecture review: Fulton Center makes its mark
September 27, 2012 03:30PM
Architecture review: Barclays transit center — a Postmodern disappointment
September 21, 2012 09:00AM
Architecture review: Columbus Circle under wraps, out of commission
September 06, 2012 04:00PM
Architecture review: At new East 79th Street tower, a stone-and-glass pas de deux
August 24, 2012 03:30PM
Baccarat New York doesn’t sparkle
August 15, 2012 04:30PM
Architecture Review — Lincoln Center footbridge is a weak link
August 10, 2012 02:30PM
Architecture review — What Goldman Sachs’ pedestrian mall brought with it
July 27, 2012 02:00PM
Frozen in time
July 20, 2012 04:30PM
Architecture review — Louis Vuitton’s tribute to Yayoi Kusama
July 13, 2012 04:00PM
For Columbia’s medical school, a building that’s falling apart — on purpose
July 05, 2012 05:30PM
Fordham’s honeycomb hideout
June 22, 2012 04:00PM
James Gardner – inside Shigeru Ban’s Camper
June 15, 2012 05:30PM
A drab addition to Eighth Avenue
June 01, 2012 04:30PM
The Village Vanguard: it’s time to move forward with NYU’s scaled-back superblock proposal
May 23, 2012 10:30AM
Not a model Citizen
May 17, 2012 06:00PM
250 Bowery marries best of postmodernism and modernist tradition
May 04, 2012 05:30PM
South Street Seaport’s Pier 17 set to become simpler, more orderly
April 20, 2012 10:30AM
Enrique Norten’s Mercedes House helps transform Far West Side
April 10, 2012 04:30PM
UWS retail rezoning would have subtle effect
April 05, 2012 05:30PM
The bling building: A review of the Gem Tower
March 26, 2012 04:30PM
Third installment of High Line surprises with its preservation efforts
March 22, 2012 01:00PM
Chatham Square overhaul lacks historicism, but gains snugness
March 08, 2012 06:00PM
Lincoln Square’s new shul looks nothing especially synagogue-like
February 24, 2012 05:30PM
Kevin Roche: A career in review
February 21, 2012 04:30PM
Metropolitan Museum’s $60M plaza renovation plans appear promising
February 09, 2012 05:30PM
Hyatt Union Square looks unimpressive, but hydroponic bamboo trees could provide originality
January 26, 2012 03:00PM
Atlantic Yards: Can prefab be fabulous?
January 19, 2012 02:00PM
Toll Brothers erecting fine looking Francophile condo on East 65th Street
January 12, 2012 06:00PM
Frick Collection’s portico is luxurious like rest of building
December 29, 2011 02:06PM
East 86th Street gets loveliest Sabon of all
December 15, 2011 06:02PM
East but not Eden: A review of two leading bids for mega campuses on Roosevelt Island
December 13, 2011 10:06AM
New York Historical Society face-lift falls flat
December 01, 2011 06:09PM
From steel wool to ‘gold’ in Dumbo
November 28, 2011 03:21PM
Fifth Avenue Apple flagship facelift subtle, but profound
November 17, 2011 05:27PM
Best part of Uniqlo’s Fifth Avenue design is its towering escalator
November 03, 2011 05:49PM
City must preserve integrity of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank
October 20, 2011 06:12PM
Park Avenue Armory to go from childhood haunt to vibrant place
October 07, 2011 01:23PM
Two-in-one W. 54th Street Marriott to have earthbound feeling
September 23, 2011 05:09PM
Maki on a roll
September 12, 2011 03:57PM
Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center will add a certain charm
September 08, 2011 01:27PM
Lower Manhattan’s Fiterman Hall holds no promise of architectural distinction
August 25, 2011 11:07AM
Fairchild Publications Building to get big boost from NYU expansion
August 11, 2011 12:05PM
Grieving the demise of Coney Island’s temples of high-caloric American capitalism
July 08, 2011 04:46PM
Chinatown gets undistinguished Wyndham
June 23, 2011 06:10PM
High Line may be a glorified promenade but it provides an intimate, interesting experience
June 09, 2011 03:10PM
New Amsterdam Pavilion adds excitement to Peter Minuit Plaza
May 26, 2011 11:58AM
77 Reade Street is best building on the block
May 13, 2011 11:03AM
949 Park Avenue is glassy, but appropriate
April 28, 2011 05:33PM
A review: Queens Museum gets bigger home, more dramatic elements
April 14, 2011 03:23PM
Architecture buffs rejoice — Van Alen Books soon to open in Flatiron
March 31, 2011 05:36PM
NYC waterfront plan is a fun read for nerds
March 17, 2011 05:42PM
Bronx Community College deserves to be — architecturally speaking — on the map
March 03, 2011 04:13PM
New Film Society of Lincoln Center project fails in the details
February 18, 2011 10:19AM
Hollister at 666 Fifth more visually appealing than Abercrombie & Fitch flagship
February 03, 2011 03:34PM
Bronx Poe Park Visitor Center looks foreign, but hopefully brings attention to the poet
December 23, 2010 03:47PM
Brace yourself — I like NYU’s new Wilf Hall
December 10, 2010 03:36PM
An unlovely building is set to emerge from the ashes of a collapsed UES townhouse
November 24, 2010 02:30PM
James Gardner — Tall, sure, but how will they look?
October 01, 2010 07:00AM
James Gardner — A mythic Upper West Side
September 01, 2010 07:00AM
New Midtown building borrows from neighbor
August 01, 2010 12:00PM
James Gardner — Son of the New Museum
July 01, 2010 07:00AM
Tamarkin’s new High Line condo maintains the look of another era
May 13, 2010 02:23PM
Hermès incarnation is a gift to Madison Ave.
April 29, 2010 04:28PM
Louis Kahn monument — worthy of a trip to Roosevelt Island
April 16, 2010 06:02PM
With new name, former GM building gets uglier
April 05, 2010 02:03PM
1551 Broadway — the transformation from HoJo’s to American Eagle
March 19, 2010 12:01PM
Reconceived Harmony Atrium — appealing but not coherent
March 04, 2010 05:08PM
Wright restaurant is best part of Guggenheim
February 19, 2010 01:03PM
Design of black box theater appears to fit in well with rest of Lincoln Center
February 04, 2010 04:45PM
Chelsea gets winner with 835 Sixth Avenue
January 21, 2010 06:03PM
200 West — just a boxy, tedious mass
January 07, 2010 11:32AM
Apple store a good addition to UWS stretch
December 18, 2009 03:34PM
Give the Mark high marks for its new incarnation
December 03, 2009 06:27PM
Scaffolding kills life of UES “living wall”
November 19, 2009 11:03AM
44 Mercer a success due to sober design, skillful construction
November 05, 2009 03:33PM
Hilton Club on West 57th Street — dull through and through
October 22, 2009 02:04PM
1055 Park designed with real inspiration
September 24, 2009 12:00PM
New AY design seems tired and middle-aged
September 10, 2009 01:52PM
Moed de Armas tastefully updates 545 Madison Avenue
August 27, 2009 04:17PM
Three Ten — worthier than its neighbor
August 13, 2009 03:39PM
441 East 57th Street succeeds because it makes no concessions
July 30, 2009 02:26PM
255 East 74th Street — a condo not worth more than a glance
July 17, 2009 11:46AM
Gwathmey’s best recent work in New York: Soho Mews
July 06, 2009 11:18AM
Two buildings on West 18th Street cannot masquerade as one
June 19, 2009 03:00PM
Times Square goes from pavement to park
June 04, 2009 12:46PM
Washington Sq. Park still has its vibe
May 21, 2009 05:01PM
New steps not a step up at the Met
May 07, 2009 03:20PM
Norten shows no curves in new projects
March 26, 2009 02:05PM
Unimpressive Diesel flagship defined by music
March 12, 2009 03:35PM
240 Park Avenue South doesn’t rise to the level of other Gwathmey projects
February 26, 2009 12:16PM
The unwrapping of One Gansevoort Street
February 12, 2009 03:51PM
New Graff jewelers flagship a gem
January 29, 2009 02:25PM
Modern Midtown gets makeover
January 15, 2009 11:49AM
Victoria’s Secret, Steve Madden complete East 58th Street transformation
January 02, 2009 01:06PM

Inside the current issue - May 2013

next previous

The Real Deal New York

Articles by James Gardner

Follow us on:

the real deal by email

news by neighborhood

Tweets from TRD

Inside the current issue - May 2013